FAWC Newsletter // April 2025

We hope you're enjoying your favorite poem or the blooming flowers of a beloved tree. This month, we're celebrating poetry and our beautiful planet, and it's the perfect time to recognize the little joys and what is most important in life. 

This weekend we have two exciting public events coming up: our final showcase featuring Mengwei Ma, Elena Kovylyaeva, Carlos Arturo Zerpa, Kevin Fitchett, and Sara Martin, as well as an outdoor release of Shankpainter 64 at the Beech Forest trailhead. Since its first issue in September 1970, the Fine Arts Work Center's literary journal has built a valuable collection of work from our current Fellows. Our editors—Acie Clark, Jason Ferris, C. Mallon, and Lucas Martínez—have done a remarkable job this year.

We invite you to join us! Our April newsletter includes press coverage of our current Fellows, recommended upcoming workshops, a lovely photo from our archives, and other future events to keep on your radar. 

As the month comes to an end, the Fine Arts Work Center prepares to say goodbye to our 2024-2025 Fellows and wishes them all the best in their future journeys. Although we describe this transition as bittersweet, we look forward to seeing how this experience influences their creative paths. 

On, April 17, we also celebrate Ada Limón's closing reading at the Library of Congress, as her historic two-term appointment as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate will come to an end this month.

Fellow Spotlight // Modern Love with Ada Limón

“I think we’d all be better off if we encountered poetry on a regular basis, because it reminds us to feel, that we’re not supposed to numb out, that the weeping and the rage and the grief leads to feeling alive.”

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Fellowship // Upcoming Events and Press

Fellow Friday:

Mengwei Ma, Elena Kovylyaeva, Carlos Arturo Zerpa, Kevin Fitchett, and Sara Martin

Friday, April 18, 2025

5 - 8 pm Eastern

Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl Street

Shankpainter 64 Release Party

Saturday, April 19, 2025

1-3 pm Eastern

Beech Forest Trailhead

Recent Press:

View from the Easel with Zeinab Shahidi Marnani

Hyperallergic

Elena Kovylyaeva's Creative Wandering

The Provincetown Independent

Mengwei Ma Blurs the Bounds of Reality

The Provincetown Independent

Kevin Fitchett Is at The Masters

The Provincetown Independent

An Artist Takes a Moment with Zeinab Shahidi Marnani

The Provincetown Independent

An Artist Play-Acts His Way to Something Real with Ian Page

The Provincetown Independent

A Magician in the Studio with Dani Levine

The Provincetown Independent

Straight Lines and Sharp Teeth with C. Mallon

The Provincetown Independent

New Settings and New Beginnings with Matthew Wamser

The Provincetown Independent

Kai Conradi Is Nothing You Could Write Down

The Provincetown Independent

José De Sancristóbal Questions the Object of the Subject

The Provincetown Independent

Workshop Highlights // Nurture Your Practice

Do I Have the Right to Tell My Story?

Live Virtual Seminar

Saturday, April 26, 2025

12 - 3 pm Eastern

Are you letting the fear of others' reactions keep you from sharing your story? Join acclaimed author Elissa Altman for an empowering three-hour seminar to help you break through those barriers. This workshop is designed to inspire you to overcome creative paralysis and confidently express your narrative with clarity.

Queering Story

In-person Workshop

June 22 - 27

9 am - 12 pm Eastern

Every story reflects our need to be heard. This workshop with Celeste Lecesne helps explore your personal myth, voice your truths, and structure your narrative. As LGBTQIA+ individuals today, we challenge outdated myths about queerness and expand historically silenced narratives. Whether working on a screenplay, TV pilot, stage play, solo show, novel, or memoir, share your story with fellow queer storytellers.

View More Available Workshops Here

Looking Back // Ethan Hawke at FAWC

As we revisit our archives, our team remembers when actor Ethan Hawke unveiled his novel in Provincetown.

Upcoming Events // Mark Your Calendar

Creative Sector Advocacy Week

Take Action for Arts and Culture

April 28 through May 2, 2025

Coordinated by MASSCreative

Locals Poetry Reading

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

6 pm Eastern

Fine Arts Work Center

2025 Summer Award Celebration

Preserving Artistic Vitality

Saturday, July 12, 2025

5:30 pm Eastern

Pilgrim Monument and Museum